Stop top posting, please.

[cdowns]

heheh yeah if this was on packetstorm they would have killed this thread 
a long time ago.

~!>D

L. Adrian Griffis wrote:

>On Thu, 22 May 2003, Matt G wrote:
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>>I agree.  I have never heard of this before either.  Either I'm out of
>>touch, or it doesn't really matter.
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>Actually, this is a very old rule from the UseNet News days.
>It used to be that you could count on getting flamed for
>this form of reply, although I've never heard of it called
>top posting, until now (seemed like a good name, though).
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>The rational is this:  When you post to a news server (or
>to a mailing list), every byte that you include in your
>message take up space on servers all over the place.  The
>right thing to do is to edit out signatures and other
>things that are not relevant to the point you are arguing,
>and to put your responses to individual points right after
>the quoted text upon which you are commenting.  The real
>point is not simply to avoid top posting, but rather to
>avoid taking up unnecessary band width on other people's
>networks and disk space on other people's servers.  Top
>posting simply showed total cluelessness or contempt for
>the community.  This was back in the days when UseNet News
>user's were typically aware of the fact that the forum was
>there because of a lot of news administrators that were
>donating their time and resources out of the goodness of
>their hearts.  In these days of low-life-scum-sucking-
>bastard-spammers it doesn't surprise me that most of the
>people who use the Internet these days have never heard of
>the traditional rules of netiquette.
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>I think you folks will find that most of us old timers
>carefully avoid top posting and that we also avoid
>including quoted signatures and quoted mailing list
>trailers in our replies, even if we don't always make
>a big deal of the mistakes that some of you youngsters
>make because you haven't thought about the implications
>of what you do.  Besides, when I was young, I didn't
>really want to hear any older people telling me to be
>polite and considerate, either.  We just hope you'll get
>over it, someday.  8-)
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><rant>
>One thing I absolutely detest about Lotus Notes is
>that it all but forces the user to top post.  Only a
>bunch of clueless loser wannabe programmers could
>ever cook up such a stupid MTA.  This is exactly the
>kind of worse than useless application you should
>expect from a company that only makes the user interface
>for MS Windows.  I was horrified the first time I
>realized that Lotus Notes was going to force me to
>look like a clueless newby.
></rant>
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>Adrian
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